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Data protection law, surveillance and the fight over personal information, reported by The Silicon Ledger.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a guide designed to help parents and young people protect their privacy online, positioning family decision-making as preferable to government-imposed restrictions.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's free tracker-blocking extension is now available for Safari on macOS, requiring version 26.5 or higher. The move brings Privacy Badger to all major desktop browsers after years of user requests.
The former EFF president and ACLU leader who fought early battles over internet freedom and helped overturn the Communications Decency Act has passed away.
A Department of Homeland Security audit uncovered significant weaknesses in how the Transportation Security Administration safeguards passenger biometric information collected through its airport facial recognition program.
Three decades ago, the U.S. government classified encryption as a munition. A landmark court case established that code is speech—a precedent that shaped the internet we use today.
A software developer built an automatic license plate recognition system to monitor police vehicles, prompting officers to question his motives—a move that highlights the tension between surveillance technology and privacy concerns.
Governments worldwide are rushing to implement age checks for online services, but these systems exclude hundreds of millions of people without government-issued ID—disproportionately harming vulnerable populations in developing nations.
An IT professional discovered his parents' Keurig K-Supreme SMART coffee maker was transmitting roughly 1TB of data over their home Wi-Fi in just 10 days, clogging their network connection.
